ASUS C200 Chromebook Pre-Orders Now Open On Amazon

The 12-inch ASUS Chromebook C200 is available to pre-order from a handful of online retailers for $249, with an expected shipping date of June 10.

US retail giant Amazon lists the device — which features an 11.6″ glossy screen and a power efficient Bay Trail CPU — at $249 with free shipping inside the US.

Electronics reseller ExcaliberPC is also hawking the matte black device for the same price (albeit billed as a $50 saving of a higher retail price) with shipping starting ‘from $13.27’.

Specifications

The C200 features an Intel Bay Trail processor N2830 processor running at 2.16GHz, 2GB of low-energy use RAM and a 16GB SSD. The 11.6-inch glossy screen fronts a resolution of 1366×768 (‘HD’) and an onboard HDMI-out port lets you can easily hook the device up to a larger monitor of supported TV.

Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, a pair of USB ports, an HD webcam and built-in SD card reader round out the extras.

ASUS say to expect around 10 hours of battery life under typical use on a single charge.

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The specs on this device are a lot closer to what I was hoping Samsung would hit with the successor to the Samsung Chromebook. It’ll be interesting to see how this compares to the Haswell and 4 GB RAM models. I suspect it’ll be a good performer but that $50 premium over the C720 probably isn’t worth the touch of extra battery life.

Exactly what I was going to say; I wonder whether this’ll be worth the extra $50.

calden74

I wouldn’t say that , the Acer is probably the cheapest built notebook on the market today. Your paying for a better build quakity , big reason why people still go with the HP 11 even though the Acer is faster.

Delrog

To Chromebook or not to Chromebook?
Why not just get an Asus K200MA over something like this. That way you can dual triple boot Windows, Chrome OS and Ubuntu?

miri

Chrome OS can’t be properly installed on non-Chromebooks and the C200 is thinner, lighter, fanless, has an SSD, better performance, likely better battery life and you can still dual-boot Linux if you so choose.

calden74

You can easily install Chromium OS on any laptop, even in 64BIT, the only thing you need to do is copy over the Chrome directory from a Chromebook or Chromebox for the media codecs and Flash plugin. That’s it, takes 5 minutes and it will look and run like ChromeOS in every aspect. I recommend doing it to a Lenovo x61, x200, x201, etc. They make the best Chromebooks, my old x201T gets 9 hours of battery , has a touchscreen, 16GB RAM, older but still much faster i5, 128GB SSD, cost me 180 dollars on eBay, 75 for the SSD.

thr33phas3

You can install Chromium OS, but you don’t get the hardware platform specialized to handle it. For example, the trackpads on those old Lenovos (if they have them – the X61 doesn’t) are not set up to handle multi-touch. I was trying vanilla builds of Chromium OS on many, many platforms, but one touch of a refurbed Chromebook (the older Samsung) and I gave them up forever.

Akshay Sharma

it is one of the best looking budget chromebooks till date.
Hoping that asus will launch it in India along with Chromebox.
I would really buy the chromebox.

lol2050

When is the C300 will be available?

mustang1068

I ordered a C300 on amazon yesterday when it appeared briefly. The order went through – says ships in 2-4 weeks.

ASUS Chromebook C300MA-DB01 13.3-Inch Laptop

David Li

What’s up with these 16 GB chromebooks? 32 GB should be the minimum. There better be a flush SD card slot.

Why? Do you really need local storage? At best you might be on a flight/bus/train and want to bring down some movies etc.. and a few albums for offline (a few gig)? Perhaps a document too (if chromebook supports offline editing now). I say drop to 8gb and shave $5 off :)

David Li

Yes, what if I want to keep local music/movies on my Chromebook? Not everyone has Unlimited data and a tethering plan (although I do :). I’ve never heard anyone complain about having too much storage. More gigs are also useful for those who dualboot using Crubuntu or Crouton.

I guesstimate 0.001% or less use crouton or alternative and most people don’t have music collection greater than a gb. This is a product for the mass market, you’ll be better buying an ultrabook sticking on ubuntu and putting in an ssd as large as you want (maybe you can mod a chromebook). In general I welcome our new chromebook overlords for the masses though, and I welcome no local storage, no more “i lose my documents” and no more “my pc slow, have virus me think” family/friend issues.

David Li

Having more internal storage does not cause people to lose documents nor catch viruses. Internal storage and appealing to the masses are not mutually exclusive; if anything, having more storage makes Chromebooks more attractive. I’m perfectly fine with 16 GB to keep costs down if there are ways to expand local storage. I would rather have a microSD card slot that sits flush to expand storage than a SD card slot that sticks out.

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Richard

The ASUS looks like fun, but I am more excited about this: bit.ly/1kbbsnD
The Samsung 2 is a way better deal IMO.
Granted that the C300 EDU model is pretty awesome, this C200 seems like a poor attempt on the original HP 11’s fame.

Lortivar

When will Joe Public be able to purchase the C200 EDU model?

Joseph Dickson

I picked up a C200 last week and have been using it non-stop. The battery life is insane, fanless and low power design still handles multitasking like a champ.

It’s got only 2GB of ram and 16GB of storage but you don’t need more. If I really want to store something locally I’ll grab a large flash drive. I store most of my music on various cloud services and generally use netflix, hulu, YouTube for video.

Additionally, I played around with crouton today and was amazed at how well Ubuntu 14.04 runs and it only ate up a couple of GB of storage.